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    1. "We say what we think": rural radio, politics, and domesticity in Dane County, Wisconsin, 1937-1945

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Canaday, Margot (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2000-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23972
    Journal Title:
    Women's Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    29(6) : p793, 34p
    Notes:
    UI electronic subscription, Author analyzes the history, methods and impact of a radio program, "We say what we think," produced by a group of Dane County rural women during this period. Offers perspectives on how the Extension Service encouraged domesticity as the role of rural women. "Linking domesticity to the trope of progress in this way kept rural women from discussing the changes taking place around them." Author also comments on marginalization of rural sociology as a discipline in the academy.

    4. Here's a snapshot of anecdotes covering the last 50 years at USDA

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hall, Ron (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2006-11
    Published:
    USA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25651
    Journal Title:
    USDA News
    Journal Title Details:
    65(6)
    Notes:
    Includes an anecdote about USDA information officer John Baker's response to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy after receiving a letter questioning some of the statements Baker was assumed to have made, as supposed evidence he was sympathetic to Communism. Another anecdote involves food served in a USDA buffet.

    8. The consumer's perception of agriculture and how we can influence it

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Godfrey, Janet (author) and Wood, Hilary (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2003
    Published:
    UK: Royal Agricultural Society of England.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24460
    Journal Title:
    RASE Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 164
    Notes:
    Retrieved June 28, 2006., Explains how the Women's Food and Farming Union (WFU) has sought to inform consumers about food and agriculture.